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by Godel_unicode 3647 days ago
N=6, this is called the OUI.
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Sometimes N=9, such as when the address starts 00:50:c2. This block is divided into blocks of 4096 instead of the usual 2^24 so small users can get a block for a few hundred dollars instead of over a thousand.
Thanks for clarifying.